I decided to go visit some friends in New York City just after Christmas one year. It was going to be a whirlwind tour staying with a different person for a night for five nights. Some of these people I knew through family, or from high school, and two of them I had met years before on HotOrNot — which was kind of an early version of Tinder.
All of the friends I was hanging out with were platonic friends. Sure, one of the girls from high school had a crush on me — but it wasn’t reciprocated — and the two girl from HotOrNot had been genuinely good friends to me for so long that I wasn’t trying to push my luck into a hookup. I just liked hanging out with them even if they were both beautiful.
Well, technically, I did sort of try to hook up with each of them once several years prior but I blew it both times. The first I just didn’t make a move on at all. She came to my town, got a hotel, we went out and had a great time, but when it came time to being the man… I just didn’t do it. Thanked her for the great evening and drove home at 2 am leaving both of us unfulfilled. I got into a car accident that night too… I was so distracted thinking about how I fucked up that I hit a parking column.